The Italian-British challenges Matteo Berrettini-Andy Murray and Jannik Sinner-Kyle Edmund are two of the pairings that came out of the draw for the men's draw of the Australian Open, the first slam of the season which will start on Monday in Melbourne.

In the tournament - which sees Novak Djokovic above all among the favorites, chasing his tenth success, while the absence due to injury of the number 1 in the world, Carlos Alcaraz - is attended by six blues, the same number of blues, who were less fortunate than the colleagues in pairings . Lorenzo Musetti will face the South African Lloyd Harris, Lorenzo Sonego the Portuguese Nuno Borges and the veteran Fabio Fognini will face the Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis. Finally, Mattia Bellucci, coming from qualifying, will face the French Benjamin Bonzi.

Sinner, Musetti and Sonego are in the upper part of the draw which includes Rafa Nadal, the first seeding favorite: Berrettini and Fognini are in the lower part, where the Norwegian Casper Ruud, second seeded. In the women's field, Martina Trevisan will make her debut against a player coming from the qualifications, the Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, Lucia Bronzetti will face the German Laura Siegemund, compatriot of Tatjana Maria who will be the opponent of Lucrezia Stefanini. Both Jasmine Paolini (Liudmila Samsonova) and Camila Giorgi (Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova) will have a Russian rival.

Finally, Elisabetta Cocciaretto will face the Kazakh Elena Rybakina. The Marches is inserted in the upper part of the scoreboard, the one presided over by the Polish Inga Swiatek, the others are in the lower part, where the Tunisian Ons Jabeur dominates by ranking.